The Digital Press

The author shares their experience building a personalized RSS reader using server-side rendering to aggregate and display recent blog posts without maintaining read/unread state. This approach simplifies feed reading by generating a public, stateless list of new posts during the blog’s build process.

Why it matters: It offers a lightweight, cross-device accessible alternative to traditional RSS readers that often require complex state management.

The big picture: RSS and Atom feeds remain valuable for curated content discovery despite challenges with standards and client-side restrictions like CORS.

The other side: Some users criticize the reinvention of existing tools and question the practicality of lacking notification mechanisms or offline reading features.

Commenters say: Readers appreciate the simplicity and server-side approach but debate RSS’s role, the complexity of feed formats, and note similar existing projects and tools.